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Maria Mercedes Bates Vidal

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Maria Mercedes Bates Vidal
Maria Mercedes Bates Vidal
Birth: 16 June 1910
Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico
Death: 10 February 2022
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Age: 111 years, 239 days
Country: MexicoMEX
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Maria Mercedes Justiniana Bates Vidal [Spanish: María] (16 June 1910 – 10 February 2022) was a Mexican supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Bates Vidal was born in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico, on 16 June 1910. Her parents were Donato Bates Herrera (1871–1967) and Mercedes Magdalena Vidal Mena. She had nine siblings: Paula (1907–1997), Rita Felicitas (?–1955), Genoveva Evangelina, Maria Elide, Delta Maria, Ada Maria, Ruben, Adam and Manuel (1926–2010). Her father had a store called “Aurorita”. He joined the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and met her a year later when he was finally able to return home after the affront and persecution. Her father was also the Mayor of Valladolid from 1923 to 1924.

In 1931, she married Víctor Mendoza Gomez. Their first child is the poet, Tete Mendoza Bates (born 16 June 1932). They had three more children: Victor Manuel (aged 85 in 2020), Jose Isidro (aged 75 in 2020) and Luis Felipe (aged 72 in 2020). According to her daughter, she does not take any kind of medicine. For some time she lived in Calle 42 in Valladolid, before she moved to the house of one of her granddaughters where, around 2016, she fell and fractured her femur. After that she was taken to Merida. In June 2020, she celebrated her 110th birthday. All of her four children were alive at this time. At that that, she had three living siblings, her 3rd brother who was living in Merida, and two more siblings who were living in Valladolid.

Her age was verified by Stefan Maglov, and validated by the LAS on 19 June 2020. The validation was later accepted by LongeviQuest (LQ).

Bates Vidal died in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico on 10 February 2022 at the age 111 years, 239 days. At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Yucatan, and the third-oldest known living person in Mexico, behind Esperanza Mendoza Hermosillo and Angela Diaz Millan.

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